Knowledge production in health social work: an analysis of doctoral dissertations in Sweden.
Health social work is often described as a blurred profession, as a work area based on an interdisciplinary field of science with an unclear knowledge foundation of its own. This study describes and analyses the knowledge production in Swedish doctoral dissertations in health social work, authored b...
| Publicado en: | Social Work Education Vol. 44; no. 6; pp. 1662 - 1683 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2025
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